Choose Your Mood: Brave as a Lion

These Choose Your Mood Board Books are a fun, interactive way for young children to recognise their emotions and develop their emotional vocabulary, using animal associations, decision-making and mood-lifting suggestions. Teresa Bellón’s animal characters brilliantly visualise the moods and feelings to help children identify their own. The double-sided ‘You Choose’ puzzle pieces offer different ways for children to play with the book and offer parents and carers a tool to open conversations to foster good mental health through play. 

Brave as a Lion focuses on feelings – 10 long-lasting but often hidden feelings, BRAVE, WORRIED, CUDDLY, LONELY, CALM, JUMPY, BOLD, SHY, STRONG, LAZY.

So, are you as CUDDLY as a KOALA or LONELY as a LEOPARD? Look at the illustrations, choose your mood, and if you’re feeling lonely, find your best bear or human and tell them that you need a hug - hugging yourself feels good too. This encourages children to seek comfort and reassurance from a trusted person to make them feel better. So suggest it to your child for those times when they feel lonely.

Other suggestions include breathing techniques, exercise, humour, role play and mindfulness.

Good for…

• Children 2 to 5

• Focusing on 10 feelings, such as scared, tired, angry or upset

• Enabling children to identify their feelings and develop their emotional vocabulary

• Tried-and-tested strategies to help turn negative feelings into more positive one

• A fun and physical way for parents and carers to open up conversations  

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